Partnerships and Collaborations

Creativeworks London

Creativeworks London is a project to bring creative people together to explore the issues that impact on London’s creative economy and to facilitate exciting new collaborations.

The School of English and Drama is delighted to be spearheading a three-year, multi-million pound project to build new partnerships and commercial opportunities between academia and the ‘Creative Economy’ of London, which comprises artistic industries, museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions.The director of Queen Mary's Knowledge Exchange Hub is Faculty Vice-Principal, and Professor of Cultural History, Morag Shiach. Also working on this project are three post-doctoral researchers: Mariza Dima, Tarek Virani, and Gerard Briscoe.More information about the project can be found on the CreativeWorks site

Staff Collaborations

Tamara Atkin is engaged in a research collaboration with Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford) on character lists in early printed plays.

Andrea Brady obtained funding from the AHRC’s Beyond Text initiative for a Collaborative Doctoral Award, run in partnership with the Sound Archive at the British Library. The project, on Bob Cobbing, was completed by doctoral candidate Steve Willey in September 2012. She is co-editor, with Keston Sutherland (University of Sussex), of the small poetry press Barque.

Markman Ellis (with Miles Ogborn in Geography) has a collaborative doctoral student with the National Maritime Museum, London on the cultural and imperial history of the Thames in the eighteenth century.

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (Trinity, Oxford) are joint editors of the new subseries of MHRA Critical Texts, devoted to the publication of scholarly editions of key nineteenth-century Aesthetic and Decadent texts.

Barbara Taylor is the QMUL Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, a partnership with Birkbeck, the University of East London, and Bishopsgate Institute. The Centre sponsors research on East London, memory and history, and educational policy in relation to History, and maintains a large and active outreach programme.